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New Business-Group Ad Has Racial Undertones, Union Alleges

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chamber Race, Chamber Ad, Racial Undertones, Chamber of Commerce, Affirmative Action, Chamber Racial Undertones, Lobbyblog, Politics News

A new ad from the Chamber of Commerce and its allies attacking Democratic-led efforts to pass health care legislation includes a storyline that union ...

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What Affirmative Action Babies Can Give Back

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Race, Giving Back, Volunteerism, Affirmative Action, Diversity, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

Too often, those of us who have benefited from affirmative action forget how and when to give back.

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Maddow Demolishes Buchanan's Surreal Facts About America's Racial Past (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan, Pat Buchanan, Video, Rachel Maddow, Maddow Affirmative Action, Affirmative Action, Pat Buchanan Video, Rachel Maddow Video, Rachel Maddow Slams Pat Buchanan Video, Politics News

Several days ago, Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan had a heated debate about the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and the fairness and...

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Pat Buchanan Says "Lesbian Coalition of America Discriminates Against White Males"

Robert Lanham | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Gay Rights, Rachel Maddow, Affirmative Action, Lesbian, Sonia Sotomayor, Msnbc, Comedy News

"I'm as qualified as anyone to head this organization, and for them to not consider my nomination to head the executive board is reverse discrimination against white males," said Buchanan.

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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Pat Buchanan Attacks Affirmative Action And Sonia Sotomayor

Guy T. Saperstein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Discrimination, Bush Legacy, Legacy, Affirmative Action, Sotomayor, Media News

The white-male affirmative action which bozos like George Bush benefited from undermine healthy competition and produce bad results.

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At Sotomayor Hearings, Some Like it Simple

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, Gop, Charles Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Confirmation, Jeff Sessions, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley, Jon Kyl, Republicans and Race, Race Relations, Republicans and Sotomayor, Politics News

Any judgment that differs from mine, to the extent it differs from mine, does not reflect reality. I am White Guy.

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The GOP's Canny Hit Plan on Sotomayor

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Affirmative Action, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor-Wise-Latina, Supreme Court, Conservative Legal Assault, Jeff Sessions, Judicial Principles, Rush Limbauch, Politics News

The GOP's goal is to bully, cow, and badger Sotomayor on the hit points to insure that she toes the line not solely before the panel, but on the bench.

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Disparate Lives: Why the Ricci Decision Won't Affect Racial (In)Equality

Dalton Conley | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ricci v. Destefano, Standardized Testing, Race, Class, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

If we want to ensure true equality of opportunity, we need to focus on disadvantaged groups long before kids take the SATs or firefighters take an "externally validated" exam.

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Obama: Affirmative Action Not So "Potent A Force For Racial Progress"

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday the Supreme Court is "moving the ball" to limit affirmative action, but he stressed that its r...

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Sotomayor's Diversity and The Supremes

Scott Page | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee, Affirmative Action, Politics News

My initial reaction to Sotomayor's 'richness of experience' claim was to find it disarming, but I was reading the quote out of context. I found it disarming because it seemed so humble.

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Sotomayor: A Negative for Affirmative Action?

Rob Fishman | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan, John Roberts, Princeton University, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

The problem for affirmative action advocates is that Sotomayor's story is atypical of the stories one finds at the most prestigious universities. There's a danger of not seeing the forest for one exceptional tree.

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NYT's Sotomayor "Affirmative Action Baby" Piece Stocked With Scare Quotes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Race, Affirmative Action, Sotomayor, New York Times, Politics News

Just when you thought we might be able to move past all the race-based criticism of Sotomayor comes this morning's article on how affirmative action benefited her academic career.

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When Did Newt and the Gang Become Experts on Race? Playing the Race Card Against Sotomayor

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sotomayor Racism, Latinos, Supreme Court, Latino Politics, Rnc, Affirmative Action, Race Relations, Sonia Sotomayor, Women and Politics, Michael Steele, Racism, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Politics News

According to the new definition of racism -- let's call it neo-racism -- anyone who believes we have not achieved racial equality can be considered a racist.

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Sonia Sotomayor and the Hypocrisy of "Conservative" Critics

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, New York Times, David Souter, Campaign Finance Reform, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

If conservatives truly believe in conservative judicial principles, then they should be delighted with Judge Sotomayor's apparent views on affirmative action and campaign finance regulation.

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Against All Odds: What the World Will See in Sotomayor

Ahu Ozyurt | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Turkey Kurds, Affirmative Action, Sonia Sotomayor, Angela Merkel, Rachida Dati, Erdogan, Immigrants, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Triumph, Politics News

I toast the little immigrant ladies who push strollers on our streets, who silently come to clean our apartments, and without a word of English somehow we manage to understand each other.

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Affirmative Action Hit on Sotomayor Aimed to Send Message

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.27.2009 | Home

Read More: New Haven Firefighters, Senate, Affirmative Action, President Obama, Sonia Sotomoyor, Supreme Court, Confirmation, Rush Limbaugh, Appellate Court Ruling, Reverse Discrimination, Home News

The anti-affirmative action hit against Sotomoyor is more than an attempt by the conservative hawks to derail her confirmation. The goal is to chill her on the court and batter affirmative action.

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Blacks and Latinos Barely Afloat During Recession: With High Rates of Unemployment, Obama's Recovery Plan Not Enough

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, U.S. Economy, Recovery, Labor, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Money, Main Street, Obama Administration, Green Economy, Affirmative-Action, Families, Job Creation, African Americans, Politics News

In order to cut the unemployment rate in those communities to the projected national rate of 6.5 percent, an additional 1.7 million jobs would have to be created and go directly to Blacks and Latinos by 2010.

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Do Women Need Their Own Space?

Indra Adnan | Posted 06.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Equality, Leadership, Women, Biology, Affirmative Action, Slate, The White House Project, Men, Media, Feminism, British, Gender, Politics, Senate, Parity, Balance, Doublex, Blogging, The Downing Street Project, Media News

Working alongside the men, rather than in the room next door, seemed to us the best way to reach the Downing Street Project's goal -- not just the women.

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Holder Should Finger Presidents for Race Cowardice

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Affirmative Action, Bill Clinton, Eric Holder, Raical Dialogue, Racial Riots, George Bush sr.race, Kerner Commission, Naacp, John McCain, Presidents, Politics News

Holder dared to challenge the nation on the taboo R word. Just don't expect much more to come of it.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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The Biggest Loser

Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

If a white man with Clarence Thomas's meager background of minor government bureaucrat had been put up for the Supreme Court, there would have been outrage. Except that he was Black.

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Turning White Men Into Victims

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Myles Brand, Sports, College Football, Affirmative Action, Racism, Race, African Americans, African American College Football Coaches, Politics News

In the workplace, few hiring decisions have ever been based on merit only. For most of our nation's history, we had, in effect, de facto affirmative action for white men.

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The Last Time We Vote For Bigotry

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gay Marriage, Abortion, Taxes, Mormons, Proposition 8, Louisiana, Christian Right, Affirmative Action, Economy, Immigration, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, California, Religion, Gay Rights, New Jersey, John Edwards, Christianity, Hillary Clinton, Coretta Scott King, Health Care, African-American Issues, Florida, Congressional Black Caucus, Deval Patrick, Massachusetts, New York, David Patterson, Politics News

The time has come to put our votes and our money where our mouth is and no longer tolerate the malleable bigotry of those who profess to be our friends, but also say we are not quite worthy of the same rights.

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Obama Wins -- For Black and White Americans... What's Next?

Carl Jeffers | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Race, Obama Election, Affirmative Action, Black Voters, Barack Obama, Obama Transition, Politics News

For white Americans, the election of Obama does not mean the conversation on race is over, that we are past race as an issue, and that we can now forget about affirmative action.

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